Improved washing-machine



" My invent-ion rel testowhatiareknownas i'ulling-.niilU washing-macliines; andit con-l tigen-anu 2.

. UNITED ,STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Moni? nAvipsoN, oF CLIN-TON, MAssAcHUsnT'rs.

`-lli/Hanover WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming pm't o`f'l.eiters Patent No. i12-34, dated May 30,1365. V

Beit known that I, AMoRYDAymsoN, of

Clinton, Vin the countyof Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have.. invented -a new and useful Improvement in Washing-lvIachines; and l do hereby declare that 4the vfollowing is' full, clear, and exact description of'4 the construction and "operation of the same, ,I efg erencebeiugliadjto the4 accompanying drawings, forming a lpart of this spcciication, in' Which v i .i 4Figure l is a side view; Fig.` 2,ancnd View; Fig. 3 a side view, of one of thelfeetzor beatl ers, and Fig. 4 au' endviewoi the same.

`Like parts' are indicated by the' samedetters in all the drawings.

sists, first, in'constructing the feetbr beaters HH- of separateparallel strips of board 'plank unit-ed by narrow pieces of woodfe 9,1.

so as to form longitudinal passages for'the free circulation ofwater or suds,"wherehy thebeatf' ers in passing through the water .willnieet' with comparatively little. resistance, and 'theI clothes will be prevented from risingby the action of the water, which' would otherwise' be heaped upin' advance ofthe moving beaters, andl thus constructed' the said boaters will also be ninch lighter and cheaper than the solidl blocks commonly used for asimilar pug pose; second, in making the steps or ends of the beaters ,inclinedfor beveled-undeigs'o that.

- their action on thefclothes s liallbetoxkeepf them downinstead of throwing themup; and, thi rd iu the peculiar eolnbinationof '-dev-icesjf whereby theireciprocating motion of the. l )e:3.t}VV ers is produced. 1 f A To enable others skilled in' the'artto'fiakej and use my invention, lwill nowpr0ce$d:to;

, describe its construction and operation.` f-l" A vis a box of wood, the vge'iner'al shape' Tand.- const'r'uction of which: are clearlyjshown in B B B B are; the legs ofithetox, and' c cf. are two stationary rubbing-boards, which arey so arrangedas topreventthe suds from dash-1V ing out oi' the box-by the; action of the beatf el.s g i D D are'two-'strips of board attached to eachf side of the b'ox Ayas shown in Figs -l'and 2.

VvThe upper Bndsfof 'th-ese uprights -in Figs., 1 and 2,) the upper. ends j of which turn freely on the rod E, being prevented from moving' laterally by'means of the pins f.

in the 4'other below v"inns shown in Fig. 1, I I being metallic fraines'or linings Vto saidslots,

-' tn'prevent the woodfromfsplitting and wears ingby the action ofthe rollers P P.- y

'brate freely overit.V y

` are the feet' or 'beaters attached tothe lower' ends of the vibratingV legs GG,1as'rep nesen'ted in Figs`, 3 and 4. These beaters are' nieansgof the iiariowstrips fas seen in Fig.-

4, so as to leave longitudinal passages. be' vtween them foi-the free circulation of Water; .for thepurpose-specified above. l Thepieces a' andthe strips e, being' properly4 shaped and puttogethelyare readily fastened bymeans of long boits for pins passing vertically through there, or' in. anyother 'obvious manner. Thus constructed, the beaters-are much lighter and ',(reqniringlessstocln ,inlnch cheaper than the solid'ones ingeneral ilse. The steps or ends' ofthe pieces a,asshwn inFigs. 1 and, are finclin'ed under, forsthepurpose Aspecified above;

AL is a metallicshaft, which passesthrough J ing a lever fast'tcone'end `ofthe,said shaft', *by means of which one' or twoperson's- (as may th'e'ailesin n in the `aris m, the diai'netei'V of saidwheels being suchfasito allow Athem toV ,just turn freelyiuthe'slots'iK-K, bearing first on one side and then onthe @hei-,according to 'the"dire ctio n in which the legs G G are driven Ris' apiugl'fonthe hole, by means of which the water is drained from the lion-'iegA f J The method of operating myinachine, De; i

G Garepieces of'boa'rd, (shaped asfshownf K.K `are longitudinal slots in the-legs Gl G, 'i the slot'in one leg..bein'g:above thecenter and 1'" T J are-transverse slots in the legs G G, the size, shapeyand position of which are clearly -`shown'in Fig. 1,the use of said slots being to receivethe 'shaft L and allow thelegs to'vimade-up `oiparallel -pieces',aa a a,of-planlor`v` board, connected vat the sides and center by i ingsiinilai. to that'of others of a similar kind 1- combination with the shaft L end wiieeis P in general use, requires no further descrip- P, substantially as and for the purpose' detion. scribed.

"What I claim as a new and useful improve- AMORY D; VI-DSON. meut in Washing-machines, and desire to se; Witnesses: f

cure by Letters Patent, is-' N. AMES,

The slots .T J and K Kin the legs G G, in GEO. R.' CLARKE 

